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True Resilience Starts with a Strong Body (and Mind)
Why your physical and mental health will be the defining factors in surviving economic and environmental collapse.
When you’re healthy, you have a thousand problems. When you’re sick, you have just one.
And if you think that’s just a catchy turn of phrase, take a long, hard look at the world around you. The economy is on the edge of a knife, the environment is in free fall, and social stability is a fever dream. The sad truth is that everything is getting worse, and unless you’re one of the billionaire ghouls engineering this collapse from your glass-walled penthouse, you’re going to feel the brunt of it.
So what’s the plan? Buy a tricked-out bugout bag and learn to skin a rabbit with a Bowie knife? Start stockpiling MREs and sharpening your homemade spear? That’s a complete fantasy.
The reality is much bleaker: an ever-tightening squeeze that forces you into longer hours, worse pay, higher bills, and impossible choices. Maybe you’ll be juggling multiple jobs, eating garbage takeout because you’re too exhausted to cook. Maybe your job will evaporate overnight, along with your health insurance, leaving you praying you don’t need an ER visit. And if the Affordable Care Act gets gutted? Well, you can either…